627 LaFarge Ave Historic Survey - Laserfiche WebLink

Home Browse Search

Resource Number: 5BL11283 Temporary Resource Number: 157508435006 19. Primary external roof material: Asphalt 20. Special features: Fence 21. General architectural description: 627 LaFarge is a modest one-story wood framed house, rectangular in plan and situated on a small mid -block lot. Its primary facade faces east to LaFarge Avenue. The foundation is concrete. Exterior walls are clad with white horizontal steel siding. The main entrance is accessed by three concrete steps leading to a raised concrete stoop. The roof is a side gable, covered with tan asphalt shingles. The eaves are boxed. The roof has an overhang on the eave ends, and a slight overhang on the gable ends. The entrance door is a white panel door with a wooden sash screen door. Windows are wood sash, a variety of single -hung and sliders, painted white with simple wood trim painted green. Larger windows feature horizontally divided lights. There is a side door on the south, accessed by concrete steps up to a concrete stoop. The side door is a white -painted wood door with horizontally divided glass lights. 22. Architectural style/building type: Minimal Traditional 23. Landscaping or special setting features: Jefferson Place Subdivision is a historic residential neighborhood adjacent to downtown Louisville. The subdivision is laid out on a standard urban grid of narrow, deep lots with rear alleys. Houses are built to a fairly consistent setback line along the streets with small front lawns, deep rear yards and mature landscaping. Small, carefully maintained single-family residences predominate. Most of the houses are wood framed, one or one and one-half stories in height, featuring white or light-colored horizontal wood or steel siding, gabled or hipped asphalt shingled roofs and front porches. While many of the houses have been modified over the years, most of the historic character -defining features have been preserved. Although 627 LaFarge was built in the 1960s, it is consistent with these patterns and blends well with the scale and character of the neighborhood. Its front and rear yards contain grass lawns and bark mulch, some raised wooden planters, partial sandstone flagstone pavers, and generally modest landscaping. The front yard is enclosed with a chain -link metal fence on wood framing. The rear yard is enclosed with a wood privacy fence. The north side of 627 LaFarge is one of several locations in Jefferson Place where a very narrow, ten -foot wide east -west alley existed in the original plat. These narrow alleys were vacated in the 1980s and ownership was deeded to the adjacent owners. The vacated alleys are still visible and mostly used for private off-street parking, as is the case with 627 LaFarge. 24. Associated buildings, features, or objects: There are two outbuildings at the west end of the lot, at to the north - south alley. The outbuildings are very close to each other. The northern one is a 2-car garage with a front gabled brown asphalt shingle roof, white -painted vertical composition siding, a single window on the south wall, and a metal panel garage door with four glass panels. Next to the garage to the south is a storage shed with a front gabled brown asphalt shingle roof, white -painted composition wood panel siding, and two wood casement windows on the south side. IV. ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY 25. Date of Construction: Estimate: ca. 1960 — 1962 Actual: Source of information: Interview with Jean Shaufer, previous owner 26. Architect: Unknown Source of information: N/A 27. Builder/Contractor: Unknown Source of information: N/A 28. Original owner: Nettie Cardilla Rappa, original owner of current house Source of information: Boulder County warranty deed 29. Construction history (include description and dates of major additions, alterations, or demolitions): According to Boulder County records, a small, wood -framed two -room cottage was built on this lot in 1905. It is unclear exactly when this cottage was removed. The current house was built at some time between 1960 and 2